• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
The implementation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban in Negros Occidental, including the highly-urbanized Bacolod City, led to the apprehension of 33 violators from Jan. 12 to March 18.
All over Western Visayas, a total of 84 violators were arrested while 90 firearms, explosives and gun replicas were confiscated from their possessions.
In a report, the Police Regional Office-6 said that Negros Occidental had the highest number of accounted violators at 24.
The Bacolod City Police Office netted nine violators.
The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (PPO) arrested 19 violators; Capiz PPO, 14; Iloilo City Police Office, five; Aklan PPO, four; Guimaras and Antique PPOs, and Regional Mobile Force Battalion-6, three each.
Of the arrested violators, some were uniformed personnel, the PRO-6 report further said. | GB
